In 1999,
I sought to understand why the film version of Wild, Wild West was so different
from the television series I had enjoyed as a child. The research I uncovered
was examined in ďThe Wold Wold WestĒ.† It revealed the connection between the two
James Wests and uncovered a familial relationship
between the two ArtemusGordons.
The original Artemus Gordon, that is the television
version, was related to the Wold Newton family. His uncanny ability at disguise
was shared by at least two relatives, his direct ancestor Henry Burlingame[1]
and Sir Percy Blakeney[2]
who was a distant cousin.

After
ďThe Wold Wold WestĒ had been out for a while fellow
Wold Newton researcher Mark Brown published ďThe Magnificent GordonsĒ a genealogical essay which expanded upon my
researches into the Gordon family. Brown discovered that Flash Gordon,
Commissioner James Gordon and his daughter Barbara, Francis X. Gordon (El Borak), Steven Rogers, Buck Rogers, Charlie Gordon, and
John Gordon also known as Jongor were also members of the Wold Newton Gordons.

What Mark
Brown did not know at the time he published his findings was that an unpublished
fragment from the original edition of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
also included Jongor but had a different ancestry than the one that Mark Brown
had published. This fragment was discovered in Philip Jose Farmerís filing
cabinet in 2007 and was published in Farmerphile No, 12, April 2008,
accompanied by an explanatory essay written by Win Scott Eckert under the title
of ďJongor in the Wold Newton FamilyĒ by Philip Jose Farmer.

In Mark
Brownís genealogy Jongorís mother is Margaret Dundee, a relation no doubt to Mick
Dundee[3],
and his father is Robert Gordon. Robert is the son of Clifford Gordon, who
ultimately traced his lineage back through Artemus
Gordon[4],
and further up through Charles Gordon and Antonia Drummond. Antonia Drummond
was the daughter of Sir Hugh Drummond and Georgia Dewhurst,
two people who had been present at the Wold Newton event. [5]

The
fragment found in Philip Jose Farmerís filing cabinet shows a different
lineage. In this Jongorís father was Robert Gordon who was married to Elizabeth
Rivers.† This Robert Gordon was from the
same branch of the family from which George Gordon, Lord Byron had originated.
Jongorís grandmother had been Delhi Darcy, the grand daughter of Fitzwilliam
Darcy and William Bennett, who were also present at the Wold Newton event.
According to Farmer Robert Gordon was also related to Rob Roy, Young Lochinvar, and perhaps distantly to Farmer himself. In
Farmerís genealogy, Jongor also had Wold Newton descent through his motherís
side of the family. Elizabeth Rivers was the daughter of Patrick Rivers and
Nyad Drummond. Nyad Drummond was the daughter of John Drummond and Oread Butler. John Drummond was the son of Sir Hugh
Drummond and Georgia Dewhurst.[6]

Shortly
after this fragment was discovered I set about researching why Jongor had two
lineages credited to him, and possibly to resolve the problem.

In both
presentations of the lineage Jongorís father was named Robert Gordon and in
both Jongor was descended from Sir Hugh Drummond and Georgia Dewhurst, although Brown has this descent through their
daughter Antonia and Farmer through their son John.

Of course
both cannot be correct, so which is the right descent? Ultimately, I think we
must bow to the scholarship of the man who discovered the Wold Newton family
tree and categorically state that Philip Jose Farmerís lineage is the right
one.

Although
Mark Brownís suppositions were incorrect they were not entirely wrong.† In fact, Mark Brown was very close to the
truth, Margaret Dundee was Jongorís mother; but not his biological mother. She
was his stepmother.

As Mark
Brown had discovered, Robert Gordon, the son of Clifford Gordon was an American
pilot stationed in England during the First World War. He
met Margaret Dundee an Australian nurse, also stationed in England.[7]
They married and went to visit her parents in Australia. Shortly after their arrival in
Australia Margaret and Robert Gordon discovered that their stay would be a bit
longer than they anticipated because Margaret was pregnant. Her parents
insisted that she stay until after the baby was born.

As her
pregnancy developed the pandemic called the Spanish Flu swept across the world.
When her parents contracted the flu and quickly perished from it Margaret
volunteered at the local hospital. Even while in the late stages of pregnancy,
she helped out as much as she could. The hospital turned into her second home
after Robert came down with the flu.[8]

While
Robert lay sick in the hospital he and Margaret were visited by another Robert
Gordon. There had been a bit of confusion when this Robert Gordon had tried to
check his flu stricken wife into the hospital. The front desk had insisted that
Mr. Robert Gordon was already a patient. It had taken a while for the harried
staff to understand that the patient in question was Mrs. Robert Gordon, not
Mr. Robert Gordon.

This mix
up had intrigued this Robert Gordon enough to look up the other Robert Gordon.
Although they did not know how they were related they could see enough family
resemblance to know that they were related. The visit was rather short since
ďcousinĒ Robert had to check on his wife.

Both
Margaretís husband Robert Gordon, and ďcousinĒ Robertís wife, Elizabeth Rivers
Gordon carried Wold Newton genes. However in this case their superior genes
were more of a curse than a benefit. Most people who experienced the same
degree of illness as Robert Gordon or Elizabeth Rivers succumbed to this strain
of influenza in a day or so, however both Robert and Elizabeth lingered for
weeks as their bodies fought the virulent infection. Ultimately however both
succumbed to the virus, although they suffered greatly as the disease ran its
course.

Margaret
gave birth to her son John during Robertís final illness and was still weak
from child birth when Robertís condition worsened. Robert died never seeing his
son. This blow devastated Margaret but when her baby son John developed the flu
and quickly succumbed to it, the blow was almost too much to bear. In a short
time she had lost her parents, her husband and her infant son.

However
there were hundreds of people who still needed medical help so she flung
herself into nursing duties, determined to see this pestilence defeated.
Elizabeth Rivers Gordon was among the patients she cared for. Cousin Robert and
his child visited Elizabeth as often as they could. Elizabeth had given birth to their son,
also named John, only days before coming down with the flu. Like his father,
little John seemed to be resistant to the disease.

Margaret
formed a close bond with baby John and offered to wet nurse him while Elizabeth was ill. As Margaret cared for
baby John she also formed a close friendship with Robert Gordon and with the
gravely ill Elizabeth Gordon. This last friendship was all too brief for Elizabeth succumbed to the Spanish flu in
four weekís time. In his genealogy for Jongor Philip Jose Farmer notes that
Elizabeth Rivers died in 1931. In this however I am afraid I will have to say,
to my regret, that he was in error. Farmer believed that Elizabeth Rivers was the
woman who perished with Robert Gordon in the LostLand because he was unaware of Robert
Gordonís second marriage.

Margaret
and cousin Robert gravitated towards each other as they consoled themselves
over the loss of their respective spouses. Caring for baby John helped Margaret
survive the loss of her own infant. Little John Gordon needed a mother and
Margaret needed a child so Margaret and Cousin Robert wed two months after
Elizabeth passed away. As the epidemic lifted, Robert and Margaret decided to leave
their tragic past behind and explore Australiaís harsh wilderness by plane,
visiting some of her distant relatives in the outback.

According
to published accounts as they flew over an uncharted mountainous section of Australia they were caught in a storm and
were forced down.† Robert crash landed
the plane in what we now know is the LostLand. We do not know much about their
lives in this region except that they survived for twelve years until Margaret
and Robert were killed by teros, a species of pterodactyl
which thrived in the LostLand.

††

A pulp
writer named Robert Moore Williams wrote a three volume series about Jongor,
John Gordon. Jongor was a nickname that he acquired as a toddler when he was
unable to say John Gordon. Although the short novels can be read singly the
trilogy depicts events which happen in close sequential order shortly after Jongorís
meeting of Ann Hunter who is searching for her brother. Eventually they find
her brother and all three undergo a series of adventures as they seek to escape
the LostLand. Although published over the course of several years the
three books only cover a period of several weeks.† The chronicle of Jongor by Robert Moore
Williams is not a very accurate or reliable account. Williams based his fiction
on second hand reports and on a brief interview given by Alan and Ann Hunter
upon Alanís return to America after being lost in Australia for two years.[9]

The story
that unfolded in the three books is as follows. Alan Hunter a rich young
American disappeared while exploring Australia. His guide, Richard Varsey,
however made it back to civilization to tell his twin sister about Alan. She
hired him to guide her back to the spot where Alan disappeared. Oddly enough
Varsey also insisted on hiring Hofer, a guide that knows Australia better than he does. In addition
to being a guide, Hofer is a linguist, a geologist and something of a
scientist.

As they
entered the LostLand they were warned away by a
mysterious voice. This voice tells their native bearers to attack them. At
least this was Hoferís translation of the voice which was in a foreign tongue.
Instead of chasing them away from the mountain range, the natives chase them
further into the LostLand. Once inside Ann and her party
were attacked by pterodactyls. They also spotted a tall, half naked white man.
Upon seeing him Varsey took a shot at him.

Despite
this Jongor helped them against the teros or
pterodactyls. In addition to pterodactyls, the LostLand also had a swamp dinosaur with a
long snaky neck. This rather sketchy description matches the 1940ís depiction
of the dinosaur then known as a brontosaurus. It was believed to be a swamp
dweller due to its vast weight. One Apatosaurus is Jongorís pet. Jongor agreed
to help Ann search for her lost brother. Jongor had a strange crystal amulet
through which he can control the apatosaur but he
does not control the teros. This may have been
biological since pterodactyls were not dinosaurs but rather were reptilian or
it could have been psychological since Jongor did not want to have anything to
do with monsters that killed his parents.

Shortly
after Jongor joined the party they were attacked by whirlwinds. Attacked is the
correct word since the whirlwinds were specifically created to seek out and
destroy them. Jongor claimed that the Murtos[10]
could control the weather and cause earthquakes. Varsey argues that perhaps
Jongor is controlling the weather with his crystal. Ann begins to doubt Jongor
so he leaves the party. Ann and her party were set upon by men from an airship.
The men are hairy, simian looking and have prehensile tails. These are the Murtos. Williams described them as being the decadent
offspring of the Murians who had created the LostLand and had brought the dinosaurs to
this valley a hundred thousand years before.

The Murtos lived in a large, decrepit city. They worship the
shining god, the sun. They planned to sacrifice Ann to the Shining God.

Hofer,
the same scientist who stated that the Murians had
brought the dinosaurs to the LostValley thousands of years ago, also said
that these tailed monkey-men represented the missing link between man and ape.
This scientist apparently did not realize that apes do not have tails.

Jongor
rescued Ann just before she was to be sacrificed. As they fled from the Murtos, they discovered her brother Alan whose imprisonment
by the Murtos had left him a shell of a man.

At this
point is revealed that Jongor had known all along that Alan Hunter was in the LostLand.†
Hunter had found a lost city over a jewel mine. He showed a collection
of gems to Varsey. Varsey then shot Hunter, who threw the jewels into a ravine.
Varsey left Hunter for dead. Jongor had nursed Alan Hunter back to health.
Varsey knew Jongor had rescued Hunter. This is why Varsey had shot at Jongor
when he first saw him. Varsey told a web of lies to get Ann to fund another
expedition. Hunter also revealed that Hofer had also been one of his guides,
only he had an agenda. Hofer was an anarchist who wanted to use the advanced
science in the LostLand to further his political aims.

Meanwhile
Hofer and Varsey had discovered an ancient tower that generated and controlled
tornados. Hofer killed Varsey. He intended to use the tornados to wipe out all
life in the LostLand so he could freely plunder its
mineral wealth. Also being an Anarchist, he wanted to use the weapons to
destroy all of the governments of the Earth. Jongor caused a stampede of
dinosaurs to knock down the tower. Hofer survived the towerís destruction and
shot his rifle at Jongor. Jongor killed Hofer using his bow and arrow.

After
killing Hofer Jongor started to guide Alan and Ann out of the LostLand. As they were drinking from a
pool of water it turned black and flashes of light played across the surface.
This Jongor told them was the water writing of the Arklans.
Queen Nesca had sent him a message. Whenever she
wanted to communicate with someone in this manner she went to the temple of the
water god and sent a message. The next time that person was near water the
message would show up on the waterís surface.

Just as
he was about to tell them about the message, Jongor heard a noise he said was blackfellas, the term for Australian Aborigines. He went
off to investigate. While he was gone a group of aborigines captured Ann and
Allan. They had also captured two other white men. Jongor rescued all four. The
other two men are Morton and Schiller.

Jongor
tells Ann that he has to answer Queen Nescaís
summons. She had rescued him from the teros after his
parents had been killed. She had taken him to the city of the Arklans and taught him. However Ann is jealous that Jongor
is so ready to answer the Queenís summons.

Alan also
tried to talk him out of turning back since they needed him to get across the
desert outside of the LostLand.

Not too
distant from where Jongor and his party rested from their escape were a party
of Murtos and one of the Arklans.
The Arklans were centaurs, created in the laboratories
of the Murians thousands of years before. The ArklanMozdoc was the one who had
sent Jongor the water message. He had done so at the bidding of the Murtos who paid him in diamonds.[11]

Orbo,
the leader of the Murtos reveals that he had a crystal
similar to Jongor. This one had been used to control slaves. He used it to
plant thoughts into the mind of Ann Hunter.†
She left the camp and was captured by the Murtos.
Jongor and Alan trailed after her. On her own Ann escaped from the Murtos but encountered some lions who gave her chase. She
was rescued from the lion by Queen Nesca who used a
heat ray weapon. Jongor trailed Ann to the Arklan
city. Once Jongor arrived at the Arklan city he
became involved in a civil dispute.

A faction
of the Arklans wanted Queen Nesca
to abdicate. Abdication meant death however. Jongor convinced her not to go
along with this. Morton joined sides with Jongor and told Jongor that he and
Schiller were Anarchists like Hofer. Nesca tricked
Jongor and his friends into a tunnel that she closed behind them. She said that
she had only told him that she would not accept the decision of her people. She
had realized that her people had grown degenerate and that their time was up.
As Jongor and his party left the city on a boat the Arklan
city was shaken by a huge explosion and split apart by rivers of fire. It
almost seemed as though an earthquake combined with an erupting volcano
destroyed the city. There are two versions of what happened when Jongor had his
final look at the Arklan city. In the original pulp
story he thought he saw an image of a winged Queen Nesca
flying above the city but was not certain if he imagined it or not. In the
later novelized version as Jongor looked back at the city, he and the others
saw Queen Nesca and several of her followers flying
above the city. They had been transformed into winged centaurs.

As Moore
related in Jongor Fights Back, upon leaving the ruined city, Alan, Ann
and Jongor were accosted by the Murtos who have with
them Calazao, a nine foot giant whom they have paid
to capture Jongor. Jongor and the gigantic Calazao
exchanged a couple of strikes. However when confronted with fifty Murtos and the nine foot giant Jongor decided that
discretion was the better part of valor and made a strategic retreat. As he
fled a thrown club bashed him on the head, and Jongo
sustained amnesia.† Not remembering who
Alan and Ann were, Jongor left them to be captured by the Murtos.
Eventually they escaped on their own but got separated.

Jongor
wandered about the LostLand and comes across another set of
white explorers named Gnomer and Rouse. They said
that they were scientists who had learned of the Murtos
and believed them to be the missing link. When he refused to lead them to the
city of the Murtos they captured him to force him to
lead them to the city of the Murtos. However they
also said that they had aerial maps of the lost land that they later used to
find the Murtos. He summoned a dinosaurs to run the
white hunters off.

After
escaping the dinosaurs the white hunters came across the Murtos
who have once again captured Ann. Ann translated for them. The hunters made a
deal with the Murtos to help them capture or kill
Jongor. When Jongor reappeared, having recovered his memory, Ann warned Jongor
about the ambush. Jongor escaped but returned with three meat eating dinosaurs.
This time the hunters used Ann as a hostage to have him call these dinosaurs
away.

He
allowed himself to be captured and everyone goes to the mining facility. There
was a large excavation at the bottom of which is a strange machine. Rouse and Gnomer found their way to the bottom of the pit through a
tunnel and turned on the machine. The Murtos believed
the sound was their Great Lost God. The Murtos wanted
to sacrifice Ann and Jongor to the Lost God. They resisted. A fight ensued and
at the end the two hunters and several Murtos are
dead.. Alan also showed up and was reunited with his sister. As they were
departing Calazao reappeared to attack Jongor, Jongor
sidesteps him and lets him fall into the pit. Ann, Alan and Jongor once again
head out of the LostLand.

This is
where Williamsí account of Jongorís adventures ends.

As we
mentioned earlier, Robert Moore Williams was working with partial information,
however we have the benefit of sixty years of additional data about the Jongor
and the LostLand as well about the Wold Newton
Family.

According
to Williams the LostLand was a valley inside of a mountain
chain surrounded by desert. The valley was large enough for there to have been
two major cities, a large mining colony and a race of metal working giants
which implied at least iron age technology. This would have had to have been
accompanied by an agrarian support system. These three civilizations were
spaced out enough so that interaction between them was minimal. The valley also
had distinct ecosystems of swamp, jungle and plains, It was large enough to
support large herbivorous dinosaurs, large carnivorous dinosaurs and large
predatory flying reptiles. Among the mentioned fauna were lions, leopard, deer
and boar.

Williams
stated that the LostLand remained unknown and uncharted
because any plane flying over the area would be swept from the skies by the tornados
that Murtos generated. However he contradicts himself
in Jongor Fights Back, when two explorers were portrayed as having
aerial maps of the LostLand..

By 1939
air planes could fly higher than the cloud cover, so the tornados would not
have been a deterrent, a plane could have easily taken photos of the valley.
Plus by 1939 the topography of Australia was well mapped so a mountainous
region with this anomalous weather pattern would have been well noted. Also by
1939 Australia was well colonized and most of
the Australian Aborigines had been put on Reserves.[12]

In Mooreís version the desert surrounding
this mountainous region was inhabited by wild and ferocious Australian
aborigines. The mountains were treacherous that it deterred over land travel
Williams also stated that the Gordons stayed in the LostLand because they were trapped and
were unable to find a way out. Yet he also claims that both Robert Jordan and
Jongor did find the passage out of the mountains but were stymied by the vast
desert surrounding the mountains. Alan Hunter also had difficulty finding a way
out and was trapped on the LostLand until Jongor and Ann Hunter found
him. Jongor also told Ann and Alan Hunter that he could lead them out of the LostLand. This means he had acquired
knowledge that had eluded his parents.

†

The Gordons also seemed to have been the only human beings that
dwelt in the LostLand. Ann Hunter and her party were
the first humans besides his parents that Jongor had encountered.

Robert
Moore Williams is inconsistent as to whether the Blackfellows
actually inhabited the LostLand or merely visited it. At the
beginning of Jongor of the Lost Land the Aborigines seem to be desert
dwellers that feared to approach the mountain. In The Return of Jongor a
group of Aborigines are in the LostLandís jungle intent of doing evil to
any whites they come across. Williams did not say whether or not these
Aborigines had come with Schiller and Morton. †Hofer, Schiller, Morton, Varsey and Alan
Hunter had all come to the mountain because they had heard tales of the strange
valley that existed beyond the mountains. However after Varsey found his way
out of the LostLand, Ann Hunter and her party, as
well as at least four other humans found their way into the LostLand

Some
traffic into the LostLand by humans may have occurred infrequently
but any exit from seems to have been rare. However the conditions in the LostLand were so inhospitable to human
habitation that a foothold could not be established. Quick visits could be
survived; prolonged ones were for the most part, terminal. I am excluding the Murtos and the Aklan and the
unnamed race of giants because although they were sentient humanoids they were
not Homo Sapiens.

According
to Williams, the Gordonsí plane crashed in the valley
when it was knocked out of the air by the tornados that the Murians
were able to generate. However this seems to have been the only plane ever to
suffer that fate. When Hofer discovered the control tower for the tornadoes it
seemed some distance from the Murtosí city and area
where it was located was unoccupied. If the Murtos
operated the tornado creator, as Williams seemed to indicate, how did they turn
it on whenever a plane appeared? They would have had to hurry several miles in
a moments to the reach the tower and turn on the machinery.

Also
Williams never really explained the strange voice that sounded when Anne and
her party first entered the LostLand. If you recall, the voice, as
translated by Hofer, warned the Blackfellows who
acted as Ann Hunterís bearers to stay away from the LostLand and then commanded them to attack
Ann and her party.

Despite
Robert Moore Williams claims that the theLostLand was becoming quite well known in
the late 1930ís, it appears to have remained hidden even to this day. While it
is true that the mountainous region containing LostLand may not be in the path of commercial
air flights and so would not be spotted in that fashion, it also seems to have
escaped modern day satellite imagery. This seems odd considering that even the
remnants of ancient rivers can now be discovered through satellite imagery.

Although
I hesitate to say this, I think that the LostLand has not been found by either
aerial photography or satellite imagery because it is not there to be found.
The LostLand does not and has never existedóin Australia.

There is
a theory that the LostLand is a remnant of Pellucidar[13]
however compelling this might be, it does not account for all of the mysteries
of the LostLand. There is also the fact that
there is not any mention of either Alan Hunter and Varsey or Ann Hunter and her
party traveling for 500 miles beneath the mountain. Even if the LostLand was like Zanthodon,
which is to say existing in one of the hollow self contained worlds that layer
the earth like an onion, again there is no mention of any protracted travel
beneath the mountains.

Both Alan
and Anne Hunter seem to have entered the LostLand through a specific mountain
passage.†

So it
would seem that the LostLand is above ground which brings us
to another mystery.

So far as
we know, there arenít any indigenous Australian plants or animals in the LostLand. There isnít a mention of such
animals Jongor books, except a mention of Kangaroo hunting by one of hunters in
the second book, and this took place outside the LostLand. Even if the mountains did
dissuade travel by land and the tornados prevented aerial incursions, this
would not have prevented native Australian flora and fauna from finding its way
into the region. If the LostLand had been an island such as SkullIsland or Caprona,
then this might be understandable but the LostLand supposedly existed as valley in a
vast continent.

It would
seem then that the only real contact between the LostLand and Australia would be through the mountain
passage and the one occurrence of a plane crash.

Despite
the boos and catcalls that I will undoubtedly get for this assertion, I must
conclude that the LostLand is a pocket universe. Some of my
fellow scholars may deride me for this saying that this is an over used
speculation. Perhaps it is. However in this case, I think that there is a great
deal of evidence to support this claim.

The vast
area of the LostLand has never been photographed,
despite Williamsí claim in Jongor Fights Back that Rouse and Gnomerís had an aerial map. Their need for Jongor as a
guide seems to disprove that assertion.

†

This vast
area also seems to have a self-contained ecosystem that does not contain any
indigenous Australian flora or fauna.

The
entrance and exit seems to be from one point. (We will deal with the Gordonís
plane in a bit)

The
eclectic flora and fauna which includes dinosaurs, centaurs, monkey-men and
such non-Australian species such as lions, deer and boar seems to have been
artificially placed in proximity to one another.

The
specific mention that the Aklans were created but not
by the Murians.

The
statement that dinosaurs were put in the LostLand thousands of years ago.

There are
hints that at one time there were humans in the LostLand but they seemed to have
disappeared.†

We know
that Jadawin of the Thoan[14]
created centaurs and placed them on his World of Tiers, although he placed them
on the level devoted to the Plains Indian.[15]
We also know that Jadawin possessed weather
controlling machinery. The Atlantis level of the world of Tiers was wiped out
by hurricanes, flood and lightning storms. However I donít think that Jadawin created the pocket universe known as the LostLand. He was meticulous in his
creations and the LostLand seems a bit haphazard in the way
it is laid out.

The LostLand may have been a research
laboratory created and used by the beings who created the Thoanís
universe. As part of the experiment they recreated extinct dinosaur species,
two extinct hominid species, and the centaurs. One of the extinct hominid
species the Monkey-Men, who seem to have been either the same species or a
related species to the Waz-Don, Ho-Don and perhaps
the Tor O Don of Pal ul
Don, a region of Africa that also has living dinosaur fauna.[16]

The other
extinct hominid species that inhabited the LostLand was a race of giants which I
suspect were the Titanthrops,
the same species as depicted in Philip Jose Farmerís Riverworld series.

The
creators of the LostLand also created the centaurs.
Whether they did this simply as an exercise in creative biology or whether they
did so to bring life to a creature from their own mythology is uncertain.

The Murians left behind some of their number or else created
some humans to be caretakers of this laboratory/preserve. Whether these
caretakers had any connection with Lemuria as speculated
by Williams, through Hofer, is unknown. It is possible since the Lemurian histories edited by Lin Carter also use crystals
as power sources.[17]
If this is the case, then when Lemuria fell this
group imposed self isolation, away from the barbarous earth.

The
caretakers controlled the weather machines and used crystals to control the
dinosaurs, pterodactyls and if necessary, the monkey men. The centaurs were to
be left alone to develop on their own. In time however the caretakers became
decadent and lost the knowledge of controlling the weather machines. This
device may have even been controlled by a single family that died out. The
humans used the crystals to enslave the monkey-men and domesticate the
dinosaurs. They also enslaved any humans unlucky enough to wander into the LostLand. They clashed with the centaurs
several time and although the conflicts ended in stalemates, it reduced their
respective populations.

Jadawin[18] discovered this pocket universe
when he was still a relatively young Lord and even though he thought it
belonged to his Uncle Red Orc he left it relatively
undisturbed. Having discovered the weather machines he established himself as a
god over the leblabiy[19]
population, he found there. He was intrigued by the centaurs and stayed with
them for a while. He discovered that he could not replicate their genetic code
and so designed his own centaurs based on their biology.

He also
decided to leave traps for any other Lord who entered the LostLand.

First he
changed the gate so that allowed anyone in but so that the exit gate would
operate on a random pattern, unless a code was entered. A lucky person might
get through, which I suspect was the case with Varsey. However despite
Williamsí claim, I do not believe that Robert Gordon ever found a way out of
the LostLand.† If he had I
believe that they would have taken their chances crossing the desert when
Jongor was ten or so. Jongor may have, but this was because he knew the code,
which had been part of his education from Queen Nesca.
Jadawin may have given her ancestors the code for the
gate in return for information about their biology or as a fail safe should
another Lord take control of the pocket universe. Or else they had learned the
code after millennia of attempts.

Jadawin
also set up a program to activate the tornados if anyone entered the pocket
universe, if anyone ventured too near the control center or other certain areas
in the LostLand. He also set up an audible
warning system that broadcast a gloating warning to the other Lords. Finally he
re-designed the pterodactyls to be larger and genetically
programmed them to ferociously attack Lords, however he made one serious error
and failed program them to only attack humans with specific genetic markers.

It probably did not occur to him that since the leblabiy were also genetically identical to the Lords that
they would become targets for the teros. After Jadawin altered the terosí
genetic code and brain structure the control crystals no longer had any effect
against them.

After Jadawin left the LostLand the humans in the LostLand became the primary
prey of the teros. The humans tried seeking aid from
the centaurs but none was given. They also used the remaining original teros, which they could control, against the ones that Jadawin had created but these were wiped out.† In a few short generations the humans were
wiped out. I suspect this was through a combination of predation by the teros and a slave uprising by the monkey men when the human
numbers dwindled. The depopulated city was taken over by the monkey-men.[20] With their primary prey
gone, the teros began to prey on the other dinosaur
species and mammalian. Although they would take any prey of opportunity, they
would, because of Jadawinís programming, fixate on
one species until it was exterminated and move onto something else. By the time
that Jongorís parents arrived in the Lost Land most of the large animal species
in the LostLand been hunted to
extinction.

Perhaps this might be a good place to explain the anomaly
presented by the Gordonís plane crash. Although Williams stated that the plane
was knocked down the tornadoes that prevented any planes from flying over the LostLand this is just an
assumption on his part. He should not be blamed for this because it is true
that a storm did cause the Gordonís plane to crash, and considering the weather
control devices in the Lost Land it is rather easy to assume that this storm
was part of its defense mechanism. However the Gordonís plane crashed in the
mountains outside of the LostLand. Robert Gordon found
the mountain passage that led into the LostLand. Rather he found the
mountain passage that turned ended in an extra-dimensional portal that opened
into the LostLand. The gate closed
behind them and due to its random nature, Robert Jordan never found a way out
of the LostLand.

As
depicted by Robert Moore Williams Jongor is a cipher. His physical description
is black haired and gray eyed.† Often
referred to as a giant, we know he is taller than average and muscular in
build. Despite Jongor being the eponymous hero Williams spends relatively
little time with him. His background is left fairly sketchy.

Williams
filled in the gaps in the accounts by presenting Jongor as Tarzan-like.
Williamsí depiction of Jongor as a Tarzan knock off is also a bit inconsistent.
Jongor is articulate and yet, as if, to emphasis his feral upbringing he
displays odd gaps in his knowledge such as not knowing what the word apologize
meant or what kissing was. Williams seems to forget that Jongor was orphaned at
twelve, not two. Even my three year old nephew knows what it means to apologize
or what a kiss is.

Throughout
the three books, Williams only give scant information about Jongor and his life
in the LostLand. His descriptions of the LostLand are rather sketchy. His narrative
focuses more on Alan and Ann Hunter than it does on Jongor. Also although the
action of the three Jongor books takes place in a short time period, Williams
introduces new background material in each novel in such a way that the
narrative seems disjointed.

In the
first book we are told that Jongorís parents crashed in the LostLand and that they perished when he
was twelve. Jongor tells Ann Hunter the story of his but this happens off stage
the reader is not let in on the specifics. Williams implies that after the teros killed Jongorís parents he had to fend for himself
and was in constant danger from the Murtos and teros.

However The
Return of Jongor introduces the Arklans, an
advanced race of centaurs with whom Jongor had had extensive interaction, yet
there had been no mention of them in the previous book. In The Return of
Jongor, it was revealed that Queen Nesca rescued
Jongor from the teros that killed his parents and
took him back to the Aklan city, where he was taught
many things including water writing. However we do not learn from Williams how
long Jongor stayed in the Aklan city or why he left
and was living in the rainforest when he met the Hunters.

Although
Jongor was a guest of the Aklans, he was seen as a
curiosity. He certainly could never be one of them. Although the Murtos were closer to him biologically, they were not human
and so regarded them as different from him. Had he been raised by a Murto woman this probably would not have been an issue
however, he had been raised by his parents until the age of twelve and then
went to live in the advanced city of the Aklans.
Neither the Murtos or Arklans
were his people; his people were outside of the LostLand. Jongor knew that he would spend
the rest of his life alone, unless he left the LostLand. He knew about the desert beyond
the gate so trained himself to fend for himself and to live off of the land. He
was close to completing his self training and felt ready to depart the LostLand when he ran into Alan Hunter.[21]

In addition
to being rather vague about Jongorís background or character, Williams seems
not to have researched Australia very well and portrays the
Australian Aborigines as stereotypical African natives. As mentioned earlier by
the 1930s, most of Australiaís Aborigine population was
segregated into missions or reserves, which were in some ways similar to the
Native American reservations of the United States.

Although
there may have been certain ďwildĒ tribes still in the outback, that is people
who were overlooked from being forced into the benevolent reserve system, I
believe that Williamsí depiction of the ďBlackfellowsĒ
in the Jongor books is almost completely a fabrication, it was filler material
using stock pulp conventions.

Varsey
and Hofer as well as Schiller and Morton may have hired some aborigines to help
them cross the desert but they probably refused to travel into the mountains
beyond a certain point. Although Varsey, Hofer et al might have dismissed their
refusal as ďnative superstitionĒ it is quite likely that this area may have
been considered as a sacred site and so the aborigines refused to travel
through it. They may even have attempted to physically prevent any outsiders
from doing so.

According
to Williams as Ann and her party entered the LostLand a voice told the ďnativesĒ to
attack them. The voice spoke in the native tongue which Hofer understood.
However this incident was for the most part an invention. A few of the
aborigines followed Ann Hunter and her party into the LostLand in an attempt to make them leave.
There was a verbal warning in a foreign tongue that seemed to rise out of the
earth; this was actually a recorded message by Jadawin
telling his fellow Lords that they were trapped in this valley. Hofer did not
under stand the message but said that he did to reinforce his credibility.

The few
aborigines that followed Ann Hunterís party in the LostLand were, unfortunately, wiped out by
the onslaught of the teros, Murtos
and tornados.

The
sequence in The Return of Jongor where Alan and Ann were captured by
aborigines who also hold Schiller and Morton prisoner is also a fabrication on
the part of Williams. In this instance it was action filler for his pulp story.
What really seems to have transpired that Morton and Schiller[22]
were captured by Murtos looking for Jongor. This must
have occurred when Jongor, Ann and Alan Hunter were answering the summons from
Queen Nesca.

Jongor
received his summons via water writing[23]
from Queen Nesca and told the Hunters that they had
to turn back. However, he decided that if they wanted to go home he would tell
them how. Prior to returning to the Aklan city,
Jongor gave Alan and Ann instructions on how to get out of the LostLand. However the Murtos
leader used the controlling crystal on Ann to lure her away from the camp. They
captured her. Alan and Jongor split up to look for her. Ann escaped from the Murtos on their own but Alan was captured. Jongor freed all
three and they followed Annís trail. As Williams stated she had been rescued by
Queen Nesca of the Aklans.

When
Jongor and his companions entered the city of the Aklans
they were unknowingly entering a city in turmoil. Williams glosses over the
nature of the conflict among the Aklan. He does state
that Queen Nesca had fallen out of favor with a
faction of her people. Her opponents had enough support to call for her
abdication, which, by custom, meant she should wait in her quarters for
execution. Williams only hints at the nature of the faction opposing Queen Nesca. From what later transpired it appears that they were
doomsday cultists, who felt that the Aklanís time was
up and that for balance to restored to the universe they had to leave this
plane.

One bit
of reliable information that Williams related was the declining population of
the centaurs. They had never been prolific[24]
but in the past few centuries their numbers had declined at a rapidly
diminishing rate. Queen Nesca believed that this was
a natural part of their evolution since they also aged much slower. They had a
legend that when they had achieved a certain level of evolution they would
transform into winged beings. She was among those who believed in this legend.
She realized that if she abdicated, then the doomsday cultists would hold sway
and the Aklan race would become extinct. This was one
of the reasons that she defied tradition and did not, at first, acquiesce to
being executed.

In
Williamsí account the looming civil war was prevented when after seeing to
Jongorís safety, Queen Nesca accepted her peopleís
judgment. As Jongor and the others left the city it was rocked by a massive
explosion that was like a combination of an earthquake and a volcanic eruption.
This destroyed the Aklanís city.

The most
likely explanation for the explosion is that there really was the cultists setting
off powerful explosives that shook and finally tumbled the city as it spewed
molten rock. I suspect that these explosions were the direct result of the
diamonds that Mozdoc had received in payment from the
Murtos. They had been used to power some very
destructive devices.

Williams
gives two different accounts as to what happens as Jongor and his friends view
the burning city. In the original pulp story Jongor sees a shadow across the
moon and is not certain if it is Queen Nesca flying
away from the city.† In the novel version
Jongor and Anne saw Queen Nesca and several of her
followers flying out of the city, having grown wings. If this version is true
either the trauma of losing their city had triggered a pre-programmed
evolutionary leap that provided the Arklans with
wings or else the flying wings were some form of flying harness. We do not have
any further information on the Arklans and they do
not appear in the third Jongor tale. I think it most likely that they perished
in the destruction of their city.

Williamsí
third story of the series Jongor Fights Back picked up immediately where
The Return of Jongor left off. There was however a seven years
publication gap between the two stories. After leaving the destroyed city of
the Aklanís Jongor and his party once again ran afoul
of the Murtos, who have hired a giant to take down
Jongor.[25]

In
Williamsí version Jongor retreats from the combined forces of the giant and Murtos but suffers a blow to the head that gives him
amnesia. He then leaves the area because he does not remember Alan or Ann any
longer.

It seems
more likely that despite Jongorís great strength and fighting prowess the giant
got in a couple of good licks with his ax which gave Jongor severe wounds on
his chest and back. It was after he realized he could not win that he
retreated. Because of the apparent severity of his wounds the Murtos did not pursue him after they captured Ann and Alan
Hunter. However the bit that Jongor suffered from amnesia is something Williams
obviously borrowed from Burroughs. Williams was padding the story again.

It was
quite bold that Williams chose to portray the fight almost exactly as it
happened. Why he chose to do this when he changed so much else is unknown.
Perhaps he thought this would demonstrate verisimilitude or provide a contrast
to the Tarzan epics and so prove that his character was not a Tarzan knock off.

The Murtosí lack of contact with human beings, at least for a
very long time, is obvious by their ineptitude at keeping prisoners. The Hunter
siblings subsequently escaped from their captivity by the Murtos
but became separated.

Jongorís
superior physiology in combination with the innate healing properties found in
the waters of the LostLand helped Jongor recover from his
wounds in a matter of days rather than weeks or months.[27]
When Jongor learned that Rouse and Gnomer wanted him
to lead them to the abandoned mining complex, he refused to cooperate. When
they persisted Jongor called up a dinosaur to chase them away. In Williamsí
accounts of Jongorís adventures this does seem like an all too frequent deus ex machina, but actually
Jongor did not control the dinosaurs unless he felt he had no little choice.
The main reason, which Williams either did not know or did not mention, was
that using the control crystal gave Jongor splitting headaches. This is
probably because he was not trained to use the crystal but had stumbled upon
its use. You will notice that he did not use it when he fought the giant. He
called the dinosaur to chase Rouse and Gnomer away
because he was too weak to do it himself.

Shortly
after having escaped from the Murtos, Ann was
recaptured by them. After Rouse and Gnomer were
driven off by Jongor they joined the Murtos who
forced Ann to translate for them. The two humans promised the Murtos that they would get Jongor for them, if they were
taken to the abandoned mining colony.

In
Williamsí account, Rouse and Gnomer lured Jongor into
an ambush but Ann warned him. Jongor then calls some meat eating dinosaurs but
the explorers threaten to kill Ann unless Jongor calls off the dinosaurs and
allows himself to be captured.

This is
only partially true, Jongor was captured because the explorers held Ann as
hostage. The ambush and calling of the dinosaurs is another one of Williamsí
inventions. What is interesting however is that Jongor was captured instead of
killed outright. The Murtos have been trying to kill
him all along, so why was he captured? It was not to be a sacrifice to the sun
god, only perfect females achieved this honor.

The Murtos needed Jongor alive so that they could safely travel
into the abandoned mining colony. The previous human occupants had retreated to
when the teros had nearly wiped out their population.
As they continued to die out they put traps and safeguards in place that would
only respond to a human touch. This explains why both Hofer and Alan were able
to use the machines without any previous training and why the mining colony
remained abandoned and why, despite Williamsí indication to the contrary, the Murtos did not use the weather control devices. Since the
believed that Jongor was the last living member of the race that lived there
they forced him lead them.

According
to Williams the Murtos became spooked when noises
emanated from the mineshaft. The noise was the sound of a disintegration machine
being turned on. The machine lay at the bottom of the shaft and pointed
upwards. A control room was on a ledge near the bottom of the pit.

†The ďdisintegratorĒ was probably used to
drill. The ray probably did not disintegrate since obliterating matter is not
an efficient way to mine since you would be destroying valuable resources but
rather probably converted matter into energy and then efficiently reconstituted
it into its base elements.

The Murtos thought this was the voice of the Lost God calling
for sacrifices had to be made. They wanted to sacrifice Ann and Jongor, however
Gnomer and Rouse did not want Jongor sacrificed but
went along with sacrificing Ann. Jongor fought back as Ann was tied to a hook
that was to be lowered into the shaft. Unfamiliar with the controls Gnomer made the hook rise instead of lower. Jongor wrestled
several Muros and tossed them into the pit. He then
jumped onto the hook and tried to free Ann. As the Murtos
threw spears at Jongor, Alan appeared shoved some of them off a ledge and then
retreated. Enraged the Murtos blamed and attacked
Rouse, from his vantage point near the bottom of the pit, Gnomer
fired on the Murtos and killed several but they still
overpowered Rouse and threw him into the mineshaft.††

Gnomer
lowered the hook towards the bottom of the pit. Jongor swung the hook and cable
in an arc and landed on a ledge near Gnomer. He fired
his rifle at Jongor and missed. Jongor grappled with him. They wrestled and
Jongor broke his neck. The Murtos decided to attack
en masse and Jongor turned the disintegration ray on them. The survivors fled.

Although
it is a relatively short epic the Jongor stories were published over the course
of eleven years. Jongor of the Lost Land appeared in 1940, The Return
of Jongor in 1944 and Jongor Fight Back in 1951. However the
internal chronology indicates that only weeks passed between when Ann Hunter
entered the LostLand and when she exited with her
brother and Jongor. Therefore despite the length between the publications the
account of their adventures was complete and they must have come out of the LostLand some time around 1939 or very
early 1940 the else the first part of the account would not have been published
by late 1940.

In 1939 Australia was at war with Germany and tensions between Japan and the other nations in the
South Pacific were rising, so it took time for the Hunters to arrange
transportation back to the United States. They also had to get
identification papers and passports for Jongor. Had Jongor been born in the LostLand as Williams stated this would
have been rather hard, especially since Jongor spoke English with a peculiar
accent. Fortunately among the few belongings that Robert Gordon was able to
salvage from their plane was Jongorís birth certificate and his own discharge
papers. Jongor was able to get an American passport in his rightful name of
John Kevin Gordon.

Jongor
and the Hunters arrived in New York in the summer of 1940. Alan
Hunter was the talk of the town for a couple of weeks. Although the Hunters and
Jongor gave scant information about Jongor and the LostLand in the interviews, Alan told some
interested parties a bit more than he should have during one over indulgent
evening.

Alan and
Ann began an intensive campaign to acclimatize Jongor to the outside world.
Since he was highly intelligent and was not a primitive[28]
in only a few months very few people could have guessed he was not a native
born New Yorker.

In the
spring of 1941, the Hunters were visited by an old family friend named William
J. Donovan. He had been friends with their father when they were both young
lawyers on Wall Street. Donovan was interested in getting their perspective on
the situation in Australia, since they had visited there
recently. He was intrigued to learn that Jongor had been raised in the
Australian wilds and that Alan had managed to survive on his own when his guide
had deserted him. He made a strange request to Alan and Jongor, if the country
went to war, before enlisting they should come to see him first.

Ann had
promised her father she would only marry a college graduate so Jongor took
entrance examinations for ColumbiaUniversity and began classes in the fall of
1941. Alan had also decided to resume his interrupted college career. However
the events of December 1941, interrupted both Jongorís and Alanís college
careers.

William
Donovan was Coordinator of Information, the head of a new organization that was
supposed to coordinate intelligence gathered by various United Statesí intelligence agencies which
consistently refused to coordinate efforts or share information. He was given
great leeway to choose people to work at his as yet unnamed organization.
Donovan preferred intelligent, flexible people who had traveled abroad or were
well rounded in world affairs. He thought that Alan and Jongor would be a nice
fit for the organization, believing that their experience in both jungle and
desert environments would prove useful in commando activities.†

They both
agreed and were among the first recruits sent to the British built COI training
facility code named CampX located near Toronto. Here they learned commando
techniques. By the time their training was finished the COI had become the OSS. After CampX they reported to the OSS Training
Area B at CatoctinMountainPark. This was a converted Civil
Conservation Corps facility.

Jongor
and Alan Hunter became part of Detachment 101 which was assigned to the China
Burma India theatre in the summer of 1942. Not one to twiddle her thumbs Ann
also joined the OSS and became a communications specialist. This is
not as cushy a job as it sounds, she was air dropped into rural France to operate a radio and to carry
out any other missions that needed to be done. On one of her missions she
coordinated with a group of U. S commandos under the command of. Colonel Aldo Raine who assassinated Hitler and Goebbels.
Unfortunately their targets turned out to be doubles for the real Hitler and Goebbels.

While in
India Jongor and Alan Hunter worked with various indigenous resistance groups,
training them in modern weaponry. They also worked with British commandos under
the command of Group Captain John Clayton, Lord Greysoke.
One of their India based missions was marked with
the highest possible top secret classification, although it is believe to have
involved Group Captain Clayton and a guerilla leader named Tiger Evans. Evans
was purportedly the prince consort of a small Indian kingdom which had remained
independent of the British Raj.

Jongor
and Alan were sent into China in 1943 to coordinate guerilla
operations with a female pirate named Lai Choi San
and a mountain guerilla named Chen-ta. After this
Jongor and Alan Hunter worked with their fellow OSS agent Hubert de la Bath to break
up a munitions smuggling ring run by an Asian named Mr. Chang. Chang sold arms
and information to all interested parties without regard for politics. His men
also ambushed small parties of guerillas and raided local villages to obtain
weapons.

In August
1944 Jongor and Hunter were, unbeknownst to General MacArthur[29],
air dropped into the Philippines. They were sent on a rescue
mission to extract an American operative. While enroute
they coordinated on two sabotage missions with a Philippine insurgent known
only as El Diablo Cabeza and one joint operation with
a small commando group lead by Ensign Chuck Palmer of the USN.

After the
allied campaign to retake the Philippines was fully underway, Jongor and
Alan Hunter and their team were sent to coordinate efforts with the Viet Mihn. As the allies pushed the Japanese back from their
conquered lands, the Japanese decided to consolidate their hold on Indochina by
ďfreeingĒ Indonchina from French rule. Jongor and his
team were instrumental in preventing the Japanese take over of the city of PnomDhek and eliminating the Japanese
battalion stationed at Lodidhapura.

After the
surrender of Japan, Jongor and Alan were assigned to
Japan. Ostensibly they were to work with Army
intelligence to uncover any pockets of resistance among the civilization
population. Although part of their assignment was to watch MacArthur,
since Donovan neither liked nor trusted him.

In the
two months that they were in Japan they had some successes. Working
with Colonel Hugh North of Army Intelligence they uncovered a plot, by the
Black Dragon Society working in concert with Princess Maru
to gas several US army barracks and assassinate
some moderate leaders. Also tipped by two service men, Sgt. ďBurnsĒ Bannion and Lt. Curtis Stone, they were able to stop a blackmarket operation in which, instead of being destroyed,
confiscated firearms were being channeled to criminal organizations such as the
Tono crime family.

During
the course of this investigation the OSS was abruptly disbanded and the
counterintelligence units came under direct control of the Army as the
Strategic Services Unit. MacArthur used Jongor and
Alanís bloody shootout with the Tono crime family as
an excuse to send them to the Philippines to search for Huk
rebels and Japanese soldiers that were either unaware or did not care that the
war was over. Their former ally El DialboCabeza had disappeared during the course of the war and
many of their former guerilla companions were now members of the Hukbalahap.

After
nearly a year in the jungle, they had found three Japanese soldiers that needed
to be repatriated. Additionally they discovered a colony of Neanderthals who
dwelt among the ruins a city. Many of the remaining buildings reminded Jongor
of those in the LostLand, and so he believed this was a
remnant of Lemuria. They had learned of the city from
following the trail of a Soviet agent who was searching for the legendary city.
He wanted to use the wealth or lost technology combined with the current
situation in Japan to bring Japan into the Soviet Union. The agent Oka-Shima
was of both Soviet and Japanese descent.Jongor and Alan Hunt were able
to keep Oka-Shima from finding the city and
preventing from further searches. Although they kept the city from falling into
Soviet hands, they were unaware that one of their Philippine guides stole a
number of jewels from the city and sold them on the black market. They were
however not ordinary gems but were akin to the crystal Jongor possessed. After
this mission he learned that he had been furloughed from the Secret Services Division.

In 1948
Jongor learned that a criminal organization that rose from the ashes of Germany was seeking the LostLand for its technology especially its
mind control. Jongor, along with help from Mark Hood of Intersect terminated
the Germans. Jongor then used explosives to bury the gate into the LostLand.†

Jongor
traveled back to New York to resume his interrupted
education. Ann had returned the year before and was already at school. She
studied zoology and veterinary medicine. He studied biology, zoology, botany
and paleontology. After such a prolonged absence and with some insight gained
from more years of maturity, Ann decided that she was not going to wait until
Jongor had graduated from college to get married. They were married in late
1948 and in 1949, they had issue, Robert Alan Gordon.

After
receiving his Bachelor of Science degree Jongor was contacted by a solicitor
from the firm of Dodson, Fogg, Greystock† and Quirk.†
He was told that he was the heir of of a
British peerage and to several estates in Great Britain. If he chose to petition the King
for the restoration of the peerage Jongor would have to become a British
citizen.† While Jongor was nominally
American, having been born of American parents, and had fought for the United States, his background and war
experience also gave him strong ties to England and Australia. He and Ann discussed the matter
at some length and finally decided that this was too good an opportunity to
pass over.

†

While
waiting for the legal work to be done, Jongor enrolled in Virginia Polytechnic
for a Masters degree of science specializing in Zoology. He had just about
finished the degree when he received the letters of patent recreating the
extinct title in his name. Jongor and his family visited the London townhouse first and then the
property in Dunstanburg which turned out to farms
attached to a crumbling ruin of a castle They then visited the manor, the Shaws in Scotland. Between the two they preferred
the Shaws, its rustic charms were more to their
liking than the hustle and bustle of London.

They had
barely taken up residence when they were offered and incredible opportunity.
During the war Jongor had worked on a couple of missions with some commandoís
trained by RAF Group Captain John Clayton. At the time Alan Hunter had thought
it a bit odd that an air force pilot was so conversant with jungle craft, but
Jongor hadnít thought it all that odd considering his own background. Group
Captain Clayton had a copy of the pulp magazine Fantastic Adventures,
October 1940. The cover had a man sitting on the back of a tyrannosaurs rex
shooting a bow and arrow at a pterodactyl. Captain Clayton asked if the man on
the dinosaur was John Gordon.

Jongor
told Captain Clayton the truth despite his initial misgivings about doing so.
As before he recognized a kindred spirit.

Captain
Clayton listened intently and told Jongor that if Ann and he were interested in
pursuing their professions instead of living as country gentry. he had a
wonderful opportunity for them. They would be among the first to work among new
species and species considered extinct. If they agreed, they would have to
travel back and forth between England, Africa and the South Seas. They would also reside outside
of England for three-fourths of the year. They
would also be working in concert with Captain Claytonís son, John Paul Clayton,
a noted archeologist as part of a research team funded by the Archimedes
Foundation.[30]

Jongor
admitted he was intrigued but Anne was more cautious. She asked if he had any proof.
Clayton showed her some photographs of Clayton riding a brightly colored
triceratops, Clayton with a winged man, Clayton with a hairy tailed man,
Clayton standing near a clutch of just hatched stegosaurus.

She asked
where these were taken.

Captain Clayton
asked if she had ever heard of Pal ul Don or Caspak.

She
laughed and said she had that they were in the Tarzan books, Having read them
was one of the reasons Alan had been so mad to find the LostLand.

Captain
Clayton told them he was actually Lord Greystoke, also known as Tarzan.

Ann
started to laugh but stopped when she realized Clayton was serious. After all,
was it so hard to believe considering her husbandís origins?

As the
Gordonís looked at one another and began to smile, Tarzan said he would arrange
for with John Paul for them to take up residence on the Mutia
Escarpment.

Postnote:
The adventures of the Gordons and the Claytons in Africa, Pal ul
don and Caspak will be explored in the forth coming
article,† Savage Lords and SavageLands.

[1] Henry Burlingame, like Artemus West and Percy Blakeney was a master of disguise.
Part of his life is depicted in the novel The Sot-Weed Factor by
Jonathan Barth.

[2] Sir Percy Blakeney was
also known as The Scarlet Pimpernel, an Englishman who saved members of the
French aristocracy from the Republicís Reign of Terror, as depicted in The
Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. Sir Percy was present at the Wold
Newton event as one of the passengers in the two coaches.

[3] Mick Dundee
is the main character in the films Crocodile Dundee,
Crocodile Dundee II and Crocodile
Dundee in Los Angeles.

[4]† The Artemus Gordon
to whom we are referring was a member of the United States Secret Service and the
partner of James West. Their illustrious career against the domestic and
foreign enemies of the United States
was depicted in the television series, Wild, Wild West. Although the 1990 film
also depicted a team of agents named James West and Artemus
Gordon, these agents were using these names as cover identities. Their true
names were James Douglas Henry and Barton Swift, as explained in The Wold, Wold
West.

[5] As explained more
extensively in Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer

[7] Although it may seem a bit
odd that an Australian nurse would be stationed in England
it did happen in WWI and WWII. Under Commonwealth law Britain
had the authority over Australiaís
armed forces and called them up to fight in France
and Turkey.

[8] Although Australia
did rather quickly adopt quarantine policies at least 12,000 persons perished
of the disease.

[9] Transcripts of this
interview can be found in the May and June 1940 issues of Look, Life and
Colliers

[10] In the first pulp story Williams
called the monkey men Muros, this was also carried
over into the paperback novel. In the second and third pulps stories Williams
called them Murtos.†
This was probably the true name for them. The editor may have changed
the name from Murto to Muro
to make the name seem more like Murian

[11] The casual reader
probably would not have thought anything about Mozdoc
being paid in diamonds. However it does bring up some interesting questions
about Arklan society. If Mozdoc
wanted the diamonds because of their commercial value, then it seems that the Arklanís had a capitalistic based society similar to that
of the outside world where gold and gems were precious commodities. If so, what
was his motive for getting the gems? Was it personal gain or was he using the
diamonds to pay off people who supported the faction to overthrow Queen Nesca? There is also the possibility that he was not interested
in the diamonds for their monetary value. Various clues in the Jongor books
point to the Murian technology using crystals for
various purposes so it may be that Mozdoc wanted the
diamonds to be utilized in Murian technology,
possibly weapons.

[12] For more information on
Aborigine Reservations see
http://epress.anu.edu.au/anzsog/immigration/mobile_devices/ch04s03.html

[14] The Thoan
or Vaernirn are an ancient race of nearly immortal humans who dwell in various
interdimensional realities known as pocket universes. These are artificially
created realities complete with artificially created solar systems and
populated with artificially created flora and fauna. Many of the records of
their culture have been lost from internal strife, a long protracted war with
another interdimensional traveling race and a long war with an group of
artificial sentients known as the Black Bellers so their histories may not be entirely accurate.
According to one account they achieved the technological ability of
interdimensional travel and the ability to create other dimensional realities
also known as pocket universes. They achieved the latter after they discovered
while in the course of attempting interstellar flight that their own universe
was an artificial construct. Then, according to their legends they created a
two universes that were exact duplicates of their own, one of these was
supposedly the one in which Earth resides. However this belief was disproved by
the interstellar races that have visited the Earth and the interstellar travel
that Earth will achieve in the future. The character of Paul Janus Finnegan
demonstrates this dichotomy in that he is part Thoan
and also the descendent of a human being fostered by an interstellar traveler
from one of the Eridani systems. Finnegan also
discovered that the Thoan may not have achieved the
ability to create artificial realities on their own but discovered this
knowledge during a period of interdimensional travel.

[16] Although Pal Ul Don appears only in one Tarzan novel, Tarzan the
Terrible, it makes several appearances in various comic strips and comic
book adventures about Tarzan and ďKorakĒ. It† contains tailed hominids and a triceratops
species. Although the Tarzan comics contain many fantastic inventions and
exaggerations, the many different exotic species inhabiting Pal Ul Don may have some truth. We will examine the exact
nature of Pal U Don in Savage Lords and SavageLands.

[17] For instance in Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria,
Carter, Lin, Berkley Books, 1969

[18]Jadawin
was a member of a nearly immortal extradimensional
race called the Thoan or Vaernirn.† Despite being virtually immortal due to life extension
treatment, they were all too human. Having†
acquired the technology to create pocket universes they used this
ability to create and populate thousands of universes with worlds filled with
life. After becoming bored with universe creation they embarked on a deadly
game to steal the universes of other Lords or traps those who tried to steal
theirs. Jadawin was the main character in Maker of
Universes and The Gates of Creation by Philip Jose Farmer.

[19] This is the Thoan term for an artificially created human being, which
they view with contempt. This is hypocritical because before embarking on their
own universe building the Thoan learned that they
lived in an artificial universe.

[20] Despite the Muroís claims and Robert Moore Williams assertions, the Murtos were not the decadent descendents of the creators of
Lemuria. The Murtos made
this claim to bolster their claim on the ancient city and also to erase from
their historical record that they had ever been enslaved. After a few
generations they believed this was the truth.

[21] This information was
derived from a statement that John Kevin Gordon gave to William Donovan prior
to his joining the OSS and is part of the William J Donovan papers collection located at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society
Research Library

[22] Who I suspect, despite
their avaricious natures, were revolutionary comrades of Hofer.

[23]† This sounds like an advanced form of
nanotechnology that I suspect would not have worked outside of a closed
ecosystem such as a pocket universe. The message nanites
may have infiltrated water molecues and reacted to a
specific body chemistry.

[24] Their creators may have
instilled this low fertility to keep them from overpopulating their city.

[25] Williams never really
explains why the Murtos have such a mad on for Jongor
and we are left to assume it is because he thwarted their plans to sacrifice
Ann. Actually it was the leaders who wanted him dead. They were the ones who
still possessed the humiliating knowledge that they had been slaves not masters.
The Mutro kings believed that Jongor was the last
member of the humans who had enslaved their ancestors. Their motivation for
wanting him dead is for revenge for what had happened to their ancestors. They
also believed that killing him would forever eliminate this information.

[26] Given the time frame in
which these men all appeared, it seems likely that Schiller, Morton, Rouse and Gnomer were all associates of Hofer, who followed Ann
Hunterís party from a distance. It is probable that Hofer intended to bring
them all into the LostLand
after the Hofer had found the location of the marvels that Varsey had told him
about. When Hofer failed to appear Schiller and Morton had gone into the LostLand and when they failed to
reappear Gnomer and Rouse had followed them.

[27] It was these same
properties that kept Alan Hunter alive when he was nearly starved to death by
the Murtos. Alan, Ann and Jongor discovered that
their short time in the LostLand
had some lasting effects for it retarding their aging process for several years
and some ten years later they still seemed as though they were in their early
twenties.† Jongor had loaded up on water
on his final trip to the LostLand
in 1948 believing that he was going to have to trek across the desert. However
he and his companion were picked up by airplane and so a couple of gallons of
water were brought back to New York
with him. He had the water analyzed but the anomalous could not be identified.
He froze the water for safekeeping, hoping that the freezing did not eradicate
its properties. Every year on the anniversary of their escape from the LostLand, Ann, Alan and Jongor drank a
small glass of the water.

[28] In fact in comparison to
the Aklan city he found New
York of 1940 to be technologically backward.

[29] General MacArthur did not want any civilian interference in his
command structure so the OSS was
not permitted to operate in his theatre of operations.

[30] Although the name for the
foundation might suggest that it was named for the great genius of Ancient
Greece, it was only tangentially. The foundation was actually named for Dr.
Archimedes Q. Porter and was funded by the Clayton family. The foundation had a
threefold purpose, to provide medical assistance and education to the native
peoples of Africa, to study indigenous medical practices
and medicines to see if they could be integrated into western medical
disciplines and also seek cures for disease by cataloguing and conducting
research on various plants and animals without harm to their natal
environments.